The Press: Devil of a Job

Censorship Director Byron Price, whose hand on the blue
pencil has usually been both light and wise, used a slightly heavier
hand last week. He asked editors to go easy on discussing "expectations
or probabilities" about the future of Russo-Japanese relations. Reason:
"speculations . . . however erroneous they might prove to be, could
possibly lead to a Japanese attack on Russia." The Washington Post,
which like many a U.S. paper had already made the obvious deduction
that Russia's denunciation of its Jap pact "bodes a break sooner or
later," confessed to...